Re: Nuke libgmodel?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, February 5, 2001, at 09:03 AM, Jonathan Gapen wrote:

>     This leads me to suggest removing libgmodel from gnustep-gui.  
> Nothing in gnustep-gui uses it any longer, and few (if any) other apps 
> use it.  I think the best use for the code is as a seperate library for 
> any apps that still use it, and for nib2gmodel.  Thus, a gmodel would be 
> a transfer format for Gorm to load for tweaking, before saving as a 
> .gorm file. 
>     Does this sound reasonable? 

This sounds entirely reasonable to me.  It works neatly as a separate library.

I think the theory was that the fact that a gmodel was a property-list would
make it easy for people to develop their gui without having a working Gorm
application.  But it seems to me that experience has shown that it's easier
to hard-code the gui than to edit gmodel files ... so it is only really
valuable as a tool for porting MacOS/OPENSTEP apps to GNUstep.